English-French translations for impression

• impression
  Cela ne donne pas vraiment une impression de professionnalisme. This gives a very amateurish impression.
  Cette phrase peut donner de fausses impressions. This phrase could give the wrong impression.
  J’ai l’impression que ce sont de très bonnes gens. My impression was that they are very good people.
• perception

Definition of impression

• The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another
• The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person
• A vague of an event, a belief
• An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual
• An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once
• The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc
• The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination
• To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key

Examples

• His head made an impression on the pillow
• What is your impression of Beatles music?
• He tried to make a good impression on his parents
• I have the impression that hes already left for Paris

Related words

• impressionistic
• impressionism
• impressionable
• impressionability
• impressionist
• postimpressionism
• impressionistically
• impression smear
• impression block